"An interesting trend with TDO at PVP CP caps"

#PokemonGO: I stumbled across an interesting trend with TDO that I wanted to share related to upcoming PVP leagues with CP caps. GamePress' DPS/TDO spreadsheet now includes a CP limit filter. This allows you to check which pokemon have top DPS and TDO at a max CP of 1500, 2500, and no limit. Presumably, PvP will not be a DPS race, so TDO may be the most important indicator of pokemon dueling strength. Let's look at top TDO for fire types at the CP tiers for PVP:​TDO ranking of Fire types using fire moves at 1500 CP:173.3 - Torkoal162.5 - Ninetails157.6 - CharizardTDO ranking of Fire types using fire moves at 2500 CP:336.2 - Charizard324.5 - Entei321.3 - TyphlosionTDO ranking of Fire types using fire moves at unlimited CP:532.3 - Entei529.2 - Heatran491.4 - Moltres​What we are seeing is the huge affect of pokemon level at the lower CP caps. The way the level multiplier works early on there are really large marginal gains that eventually taper off, so weaker pokemon that can be powered up to level 20,30+ and still be below the CP caps get pretty big advantages relative to the stronger pokemon that would have to be very low level to squeeze in these lower tiers. At 1500 CP Torkoal and Ninetails end up with higher TDO due to higher pokemon level, as the CP cap raises you slowly start to see better pokemon perform better. I think we may see a very similar trend across all types. For example if you did the same analysis for rock, you would see Probopass be top TDO at 1500, Regirock top at 2500, and Tyranitar top at unlimited.​What do you guys think? via /r/TheSilphRoad https://ift.tt/2QuGzSo